Getting too lazy to reboot to windows Already have which I think are best of the current crop, FTL, Shadowrun, Papers. Will get Kerbal soon. Won't get starbound because it's too much like crack. Recommend me some more please
Linux, huh? Let me check this window open to my "Humble Library" . . . [Disclaimer: I have never personally run ANY of these games under Linux. I have to assume that the Linux versions operate as well as the non-Linux ones I've played.] You speak of "the current crop": how old is "current"? And do you want recommendations about "older" games, too? Then Aquaria, Braid, Cave Story, Closure, Fez, Jamestown, LIMBO, Legend of Grimrock, Little Inferno, Lone Survivor, Machinarium, Psychonauts, Revenge of the Titans, Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP, VVVVVV, Voxatron, and World of Goo. I have yet to play these, but all signs point to awesomeness in Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Antichamber, Dear Esther, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams and Snapshot. I'd also recommend Sir, You Are Being Hunted, but it's in beta and I don't know where the average person gets a copy these days.
Yeah, assuming the Humble store offerings will run well on Linux, I'd recommend: Kentucky Route Zero - the best video game artistic experience ever Bastion - amazing story / beat-em-up; the one with the narrator guy Antichamber - mind-bending puzzler, like a cross between Portal and The Stanley Parable. Braid - The Indie Game (TM) Dust: An Elysian Tail - beautiful 2d hack n' slash rpg Hotline Miami - feverish top-down beat-em-up drug-infused-horror-show Monaco - top-down stealth puzzler Fez - (completed on xbox) first runthrough is a platforming treasure hunt; second time is a linguistics puzzle
All on Steam. One of the reasons of my move is the now kickass linux steam client. (and also having bought most if not all the humble bundles)
Steam, you say. How does Steam handle computer platforms? Can I presume that IF something from my list of Linux games is on Steam, THEN it's on Steam for Linux? Checking . . . . . . Okay, why can't I check Steam right now? Blarg, connection problems of some sort. Okay, once it's done being inexplicable, it's simple enough to type in names. Sorry to be unhelpful.
There is a list of Linux compatible games. But you buy a game. And if it has a Mac or Linux version. You own them as well.
Okay, now I can check and I see the little icons. Available on Steam (in Linux) are Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Aquaria, Cave Story, Closure, Fez, Legend of Grimrock, Little Inferno, Psychonauts, Revenge of the Titans, "Sir, You Are Being Hunted" (quoted because there's a comma in the name), Snapshot, Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP, VVVVVV, and World of Goo. Also available is everything neoncat mentioned that I didn't mention already. (We both mentioned Antichamber and Braid, but you can't get them on Steam for Linux.) Now, do you want REASONS for why all these games are awesome, or will you take yourself to be the final arbiter of awesomeness?
